Artists Include Enrique Chagoya, Lee Bontecou, Marisol, Carmen Herrera, and Kiki Smith
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, is pleased to announce a gift of 44 prints and one drawing by nine artists donated by Joshua Wesoky, Dartmouth Class of 1993, and Larissa Goldston, director and co-owner of Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE). Among those 44 prints, Larissa and Josh also facilitated the gift of a Jasper Johns print, which was generously donated by ULAE and the artist. Featuring works created between 1969 and 2019 by renowned artists such as Kiki Smith, Enrique Chagoya, Marisol, Carmen Herrera, and Lee Bontecou, the gift augments the Hood Museum's collection of modern and contemporary prints. These lithographs, intaglios, and wood engravings represent highlights from ULAE's history of supporting the work of established and emerging artists since 1957. ULAE was founded and led by Tatyana Grosman, who championed artistic collaboration and technical experimentation and placed ULAE at the forefront of contemporary printmaking for the next 60 years.
"Prints form the backbone of our teaching program," says Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood Museum John R. Stomberg. "The significance of a large-scale gift such as this one featuring ULAE prints will echo throughout our teaching galleries as well as our public spaces for a very long time to come. It has opened a door to new possibilities for the way we understand and share modern and contemporary art—a very welcome development in our 40th anniversary year."
Joshua Wesoky '93 commented, "Having spent so much time in the museum as a student during my own Dartmouth years, and on every subsequent visit to Hanover in the 30+ years since, the Hood Museum has always been a tremendous source of inspiration and a point of Dartmouth pride for me personally. Together with many classes I took in the Department of Art History, it helped to spark my lifelong passion for visual art and collecting. Larissa has also come to love Dartmouth and the Hood Museum, and as director and co-owner of the country's oldest contemporary art print studio, ULAE, she is as thrilled as I am that we could enhance the Hood Museum's print and contemporary art collections with this gift. We both hope this will be the beginning of a long relationship for our family and ULAE in supporting the Hood's mission as a teaching museum for future generations of Dartmouth students, faculty, and the Upper Valley community."
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Highlights of the gift include Enrique Chagoya's Recurrent Goya Portfolio, a suite of 14 intaglio with letterpress prints that recreate and alter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Los Caprichos by inserting contemporary topics or figures such as Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog or images of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, or Joseph Stalin. In this way, Chagoya demonstrates the continued relevance of political prints while speaking directly to today's societal and political concerns. Lithographs by Cuban-born American artist Carmen Herrera are the first works of hers to enter the Hood Museum's collection, joining other abstract works acquired in recent years by women artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Deborah Remington, and Jay DeFeo. Prints by artists already represented in the collection, including Kiki Smith, Amy Cutler, Carroll Dunham, Marisol, Jane Hammond, Jasper Johns, and Tam Van Tram, add greater depth and representation to their careers as well.
Hood Museum Curator of Collections Ashley Offill explains, "When we bring new works into the Hood Museum's collection, we consider how they correspond with our strategic plan, mission, and collection development plan. These prints are perfectly in keeping with our current goals to expand the number and types of voices represented in the artworks in our collection."
Since the Hood Museum's original study gallery, Bernstein Study-Storage, opened for teaching in 1990, 119,595 works of art have been pulled from storage for teaching purposes for 53,240 Dartmouth students at last count. These prints will be used for teaching and provide the museum's curatorial team with the opportunity to tell new and different stories in the galleries.
About Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) is a fine art print publisher located in Bay Shore, New York, founded in 1957 by Tatyana Grosman. Her vision was to make original lithographs and artist books, and she began working with artists such as Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Bontecou, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. The work that came out of the printshop sparked a revival of printmaking in the United States in the late 1950s and 1960s. Bill Goldston joined Grosman in 1969 and has spent his tenure working with younger artists and master printers in the mediums of stone and offset lithography, intaglio, woodcut, digital printing, and bookmaking to continue Grosman's legacy. Today, Larissa Goldston, Bill's daughter and Tatyana's goddaughter, carries on the tradition. ULAE is represented in the collections of many major museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate Gallery in London, and National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The Museum of Modern Art in New York began acquiring the first impression of every edition published by ULAE in 1960 and still continues that tradition today. Its time- honored practice of artistic collaboration, quality, and technical experimentation has continued to keep ULAE in the forefront of contemporary printmaking in the United States and around the world for over 67 years.